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| Cartoon: Reasons To Support Trump! TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels. PANEL 1 A grinning man stands in his living room. MAN: That TV Star billionaire son of a billionaire is an underdog like me! PANEL 2 A woman standing behind a fence gestures at her phone. WOMAN: Trump... |
Barry Deutsch | 12/04/2025 | 4 |
| Sloth, Incompetence, Hate, Greed, Hubris, Healthcare Cuts, and Food Costs Are Collapsing the GOP When political archaeologists investigate the 2025 collapse of the GOP, Arizona Rep. Eli Crane will be used for a case study into why the Southwest turned blue. Tom Petty wasn’t thinking about Trump and Crane when he wrote Free Fallin’ but its lyrics... |
EricAZ | 12/04/2025 | 8 |
| As predicted, after Trump racist rant, ICE comes for the Somalis in Minneapolis There are over 80,000 Somalis in the US, 42,000 in Minnesota with 700+ having Temporary Protected Status threatened. Most Somali immigrants in Minnesota are U.S. citizens, yet residents have been pulled over, asked for their passports and detained by... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 39 |
| JD Vance invites attendees to a VP Hanukkah observance to celebrate"50 Years of Christmas" In 2008, the Bush administration had to apologize when the White House Hanukkah party invitation featured a Christmas tree. The Trump administration scoffs at that slur as small potatoes. It is now metaphorically saying, "Hold my beer." To hell with a... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/04/2025 | 212 |
| ICE Employees Spill Tea About the Misfit Toy Applicants Rushed Through Hiring Process by Kristi Noem The Daily Mail has an exclusive on the rampaging incompetence of the hiring process going on at ICE. The nicest thing that can be said about the new applicants at ICE is they are misfit toys. The truth is that most are mentally, morally, and physically... |
Merlin196360 | 12/04/2025 | 137 |
| PWB peeps ~ it's cold out there! Welcome to this afternoon’s PWB diary! Glad to have you join us for a few minutes of relaxing. Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving, however you choose to celebrate it. So loosen your tie ( ... |
mayim | 12/04/2025 | 63 |
| Slenderman: US foreign policy is run out of a private equity firm stuffed with Saudi cash (again) Because crony capitalist weasels are now more open about their scams, and Secretary of State Rubio talks at a sleeping Trump. BREAKING: Jared Kushner gets caught performing illegal “diplomacy” on behalf of Trump in a shady backroom overseas. In the... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 31 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: 'We can't leave Ukraine alone with these guys' A Ukrainian drone takes out a Russian Mig-29 at a Crimean airfield. Behind the scenes European leader have had their fill of Donald Trump and his Merry Band of Incompetents. They need to start saying some of these things publicly. Maybe Ukraine could... |
quaoar | 12/04/2025 | 91 |
| Would You Pee on Trump's Grave? Take the poll Would you pee on Trumps Grave? Take The Poll! |
Noamjunior | 12/04/2025 | 107 |
| FBI Arrests Suspect In Case Of Pipe Bombs Planted In D.C. The Night Before Insurrection (Updated x4) UPDATE: Friday, Dec 5, 2025 · 12:54:23 AM +00:00 · PvtJarHead INSIDENOVA D.C. pipe bomb suspect Brian Jerome Cole Jr. lived with his mother in a five-bedroom house outside Dale City and worked as a bail bondsman in a family business. (snip) Cole's... |
PvtJarHead | 12/04/2025 | 212 |
| Cheers and Jeers: Thursday Must-Seethe TV Stephen Colbert, who still has six months to tear into these idiots—and whose show has a good chance of outlasting Captain Cankles and his bloated carcass that short-circuits MRI machines—previews the reboot of a beloved 1960’s comedy...... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 12/04/2025 | 99 |
| The Epstein Class: the through line We Dems often suck at messaging, but now we have the perfect opportunity: The Epstein class. With this simple phrase, it connects so many dots. The Epstein class means the oligarchs who are OK with kidnapping, trafficking and raping children, with... |
chloris creator | 12/04/2025 | 68 |
| Thursday GNR: Resistance vs. Epic Fails Galore There are a lot of would-be bad guys around, but they are mostly superlatively bad at it. That is especially true for those who claim that karma doesn’t apply to them, and that they are getting away with everything. I am collecting Epic Fail memes to... |
Mokurai | 12/04/2025 | 98 |
| Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: ICE storm into The Big Easy We begin today with� Lucy Campbell �of The Guardian reporting on new ICE actions in the city of New Orleans.
Masked agents patrolled a heavily Latino suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a ... |
Chitown Kev | 12/04/2025 | 343 |
| Morning Open Thread Thursday December 4, theme: Naughty songs Welcome to Morning Open Thread , a daily post with MOT hosts, who choose the topic for the daily posting. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful, respectful ... |
Ozarkblue | 12/04/2025 | 63 |
| "I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war." No, Pete It isn’t. Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because... |
annieli | 12/04/2025 | 93 |
| 10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 181 | ZenTrainer | 12/04/2025 | 29 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,384: combat continues, RU remains maximalist, US negotiators say "how high?" US plans to return Russia’s frozen assets once a peace agreement is signed, — Politico. The US has informed EU sanctions chief David O'Sullivan of its decision to return frozen Russian assets to Russia after a peace plan is finalized. ︀︀ ︀︀Trump's... |
annieli | 12/03/2025 | 33 |
| Overnight News Digest: December 3, 2025 Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and FarWestGirl. Alumni editors include (but not limited to)... |
FarWestGirl | 12/03/2025 | 15 |
| PWB Kitties Love Shopping Kitties are ready to do some shopping… But first, the rules… You are all welcome to join us! Here are few not-too-onerous PWB rules Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, |
mamajo2k | 12/03/2025 | 32 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/3/25: Toxic Impunity 42 years ago today was the worst industrial disaster of all time.
….while killing off the ... |
jck | 12/03/2025 | 107 |
| Poor, misunderstood Young Republican: racist, antisemitic, misogynistic messages were just jokes! I’m sure most folks here remember this Politico story from October about a group of Young Republicans exchanging Signal chats about their admiration for Hitler, wanting to shove their opponents into gas chambers and making virulently antisemitic,... |
Bob Johnson | 12/03/2025 | 253 |
| Steve Cropper, musician, 1941-2025 Steven Lee Cropper (October 21, 1941 – December 3, 2025), sometimes known as "The Colonel", was an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. You may not know his name, but you know his sound, from Dock on the Bay (which he co-wrote with Otis... |
Rambler797 | 12/03/2025 | 72 |
| The PLA General Who Refused to Wage War Against Student Protesters in 1989 By an odd historical coincidence, just as potential war crimes are finally being directed against the US military officers (and their civilian overseers in the Defense Department) involved with the now 3-month long terror campaign against small boats... |
Irontortoise | 12/03/2025 | 14 |
| Hillary Clinton - Some Unnamed Gaza Videos "Pure Propaganda" Hillary Clinton recently said that Tik Tok is responsible for young people being opposed to what’s happening in Gaza. She accused young people of, among many other things, ignoring what happened on October 7th and of being ignorant on Israel’s history.... |
PJ the WB Lefty | 12/03/2025 | 90 |
| I Have an Axe to Grind || Commentary One of the things one tries to do when relating current events or news stories is to keep a distance from one’s feelings that compromise the truth. Anger can take your stories to a place of unfair or biased commentary. When I write something, a lot of... |
ReasonaBill | 12/03/2025 | 80 |
| Pentagon IG says Hegseth shared CLASSIFIED information on a commercial app from his personal phone Hegseth shared classified information On Tuesday, sources revealed that an investigation by the Pentagon's Inspector General had determined that Pete Hegseth had shared CLASSIFIED military information on a commercial messaging app. This contradicts the... |
TheCriticalMind | 12/03/2025 | 37 |
| Jack Smith Subpoenaed So, Jim Jordan is demanding Jack Smith appear before his oversight committee, in a CLOSED DOOR meeting. And they request the documentation he possesses in Trump’s theft of National Security documents case, be turned over to the committee. For oversight... |
SpaceElevator | 12/03/2025 | 94 |
| Wednesday Woozles: A Few Humpday Chuckles Good day, Peeps. How’s December treating you? Are your pets doing okay?
A gentle reminder of how we do things: �
Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, |
Ice Blue | 12/03/2025 | 105 |
| Russian stuff blowing up: Ukraine targets a refinery in Tambov Ukraine struck the oil refinery in the Tambov region, which is about 420 km southeast of Moscow. A section of the Druzhba pipeline was destroyed by Ukraine. Russia hit this church in Kostiantynivka. All those fiber-optic cables laying around came in... |
quaoar | 12/03/2025 | 45 |
| Kitchen Table Kibitzing 12/2/2025: Cliff Notes Good evening, Kibitzers! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday weekend! I was unusually organized (maybe because I’m retired now and I don’t have to cram every single thing into a few “days off”), so now I have a ton of food made from Thanksgiving... |
belinda ridgewood | 12/02/2025 | 89 |
| White to move and mate in two #752 - New Solar Flares
Two new active regions on the Sun's surface are now rotating into view.
Region 4294 emitted an M5.9 (R2-Moderate) solar flare on Friday.
Region 4299 emitted a 2x more energetic X1.9 (R3-Strong) ... |
AKALib | 12/02/2025 | 14 |
| Poetry of Dorothy Parker. Last week my son brought home a special surprise- a book of poetry by Dorothy Parker.� Death and Taxes� was first published in 1931; this edition was dated 1939.� The title page. |
A Pagan in Arizona | 12/02/2025 | 20 |
| DEMENTIA J. TRUMP Says Affordability is a Scam. And Also that He is the Affordability President? It's becoming more and more difficult to keep up with the meandering mental mania that emanates from the mind of Donald Trump. Anyone observing his increasingly deranged behavior has to be concerned about the risk of harm that he is capable of to the... |
News Corpse | 12/02/2025 | 15 |
| Hegseth claims he didn't see the "second strike" because of the 'Gaslight of War' There was the usual cabinet meeting today, where the occasion was used as a press opportunity. In this instance, ‘narco-terrorist’ remains a misnomer, the 2 September mission’s Target Engagement Authority (TEA) was the SecDef, and both Trump and... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 70 |
| #RogueAutoPen strikes: "Stop me before I do absurd things again!" Trump's 150 manic posts last night Epstein distractions continue now with oldies-but-goodies meant to keep the MAGAs in line, considering his murdering screw-ups and deflections from Epstein. The well is drying up, even as he continues his lethal scamming. The unhingery of 150 posts in... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 18 |
| Indians 201: Crow Indian migrations When the first American explorers and fur traders began to move out onto the Northern Plains following the Corps of Discovery (i.e. Lewis and Clark) in the early nineteenth century, they encountered ... |
Ojibwa | 12/02/2025 | 4 |
| For SecWar Hegseth, Signalgate was nothing compared to Admiral Bradley pushed in front of... Will Admiral Bradley get keelhauled with a steam catapult? IT’S STILL HEGSETH’S ORDERS and the WHITE HOUSE gets its firewall. Pete Hegseth: "[Trump] changed the rules of engagement [and] untied the hands of war fighters…We don't need burdensome rules... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 130 |
| Renewable Tuesday: A COP30 Reckoning is Coming Far too many around the world consider that if the COP process does not immediately and totally condemn fossil fuels and order the end of their use, then the whole process is a failure. This is not ... |
Mokurai | 12/02/2025 | 23 |
| The White House Vulvacollum* is still about Epstein (and scandal) The end of civilization appears on the horizon in decades of the usual scams mostly vaporware globally applied. For example, if you don’t have a REAL-ID or its equivalent you might not be able to travel, and even if you are, it’ll cost you $45 USD. In... |
annieli | 12/02/2025 | 13 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,382: darn 'moral clarity' - citizen Kushner involved in Moscow 'peace' talks? Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio shaking down Ukraine for Trump money is not new. Trump has been trying to mess with Ukraine since Manafort was pitching the same "Peace Deal" in 2016. "3 times Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into conceding to Russian... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 47 |
| Costco sues Trump admin seeking tariff refunds before SCOTUS rules if they’re illegal Costco has sued the Trump administration to get a full refund of new tariffs it paid so far this year, and to block those import duties from continuing to be collected from the retail warehouse club giant as a Supreme Court case plays out. From... |
AKALib | 12/01/2025 | 109 |
| World AIDS Day 2025 (With a Late Evening Addendum) The first story I ever posted on Daily Kos was written for World AIDS Day 2006. I’ve posted another one almost every year since then. This year the Trump regime has decided there should be no federal observance of World AIDS Day, saying... ...the... |
sfbob | 12/01/2025 | 17 |
| YUCK! Pete Hegseth's Disgusting, Bloodthirsty, 'Christmas Wish' Will Nauseate You As the American people recover from their Thanksgiving feasts, Donald Trump and his Republican MAGA cult in Washington are demonstrating their ability to sink lower in morality, legality, and even holiday spirit, than anyone previously thought... |
News Corpse | 12/01/2025 | 23 |
| Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering: The Crisis Uniting Democracy and Gender Justice A deep dive into abortion rights, Venezuela narratives, global manhood reform, and a Trump-Starmer deal that would raise NHS drug prices—democracy is on the line. Abortion, Venezuela, and NHS Profiteering Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts... |
Egberto Willies | 12/01/2025 | 1 |
| Oregon Military Museum: World War II Japanese artillery (museum exhibit) Battery A Field Artillery Horse Barn was once an officers’ horse barn.� The building is one of two 1911�buildings original to Camp Withycomb. The Horse Barn now houses the artillery exhibit for ... |
Ojibwa | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| At the center of the Dark Heart of MAGA delusions I’m certain you seen stories similar to this, a single family half MAGA, half not. Two kids, a son (Chad) and a daughter (Haley) who are essentially progressives living in LA and New York(?) while their parents in Oklahoma are both hard-core full-on... |
Frank Vyan Walton | 12/01/2025 | 119 |
| 'Imperial Blowback' or PTSD? DC shooter part of CIA death squad in Afghanistan? Too soon to tell. The GOP and the White House may be hoping Rahmanullah Lakanwal is a Marinus van der Lubbe? Too soon to tell, as long as he’s not dead, because the ICE cosplay death squads need their continuing anonymity in the service of mass deportation and migration... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 14 |
| Hegseth fired JAG officers because they can't handle the truth: War Crime or Murder on the high seas Was it a traditional wooden Trini fishing boat, not even a “go-fast” boat? So video of strike #1 used for propaganda is unclassified but video of strike #2 is classified? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 128 |
| Polson Museum: Carriages (museum exhibit) The Polson Flathead Lake Museum in Polson, Montana, has a collection of carriages. A carriage is a horse-drawn passenger vehicle. With regard to etymology, the word carriage entered into English in ... |
Ojibwa | 12/01/2025 | 2 |
| Why stop there? Free Felicidad Noriega's hubby. Oh wait, he's dead, Jaime. Manuel Noriega's wife Felicidad was arraigned for allegedly shoplifting buttons, one day after the former Panamanian dictator was convicted of dealing drugs for a cocaine cartel. Much like Nicolae Ceaușescu’s plumbing fetish, there are always... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 4 |
| Vegan Christmas Feasts
The day after Thanksgiving I commented to my friends in the Good News Roundup that I should write up our family’s plant-based Thanksgiving for this Christmas etc. holiday season, along with my ... |
Mokurai | 12/01/2025 | 7 |
| Ukraine Invasion Day 1,381: everywhere and not a drop to drink US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that the US-proposed peace plan aims to ensure Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, and economic development, during the US-Ukrainian talks in Hallandale Beach, Florida on November 30. Other Key Takeaways:... |
annieli | 12/01/2025 | 32 |
| IAN: Stuff & Nonsense I hope everyone had a fine holiday weekend. I made a ton of stuffing this year, and turned some of the leftovers into Leftover Stuffing Bread Pudding, with a bit of queso Oaxaca added for that ... |
Youffraita | 11/30/2025 | 44 |
| Pardoning ex-Presidente Jefe because 400 tons of trafficked drugs isn't like trafficking children Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre. Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States” Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison... |
annieli | 11/30/2025 | 36 |
| GOP goes all-in on culture war—and it's not going great In yet another sign the electorate is rejecting MAGA’s culture-war politics, Democrats swept school board elections in Texas, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. “From Texas to Pennsylvania to Ohio, ... |
kos | 11/30/2025 | 232 |
| AntiCapitalist MeetUp - The A.I. Bubble: peak A.I. is not like 'peak oil' or peak tulip The Google A.I. Gemini sucked up to me as I applied it to this page. That's an insightful connection, and the web page you are viewing directly addresses both Karl Marx's concept of General ... |
annieli | 11/30/2025 | 15 |
| SHEESH! Trump's White House Website Now Has a Page to Attack Media that Tells the Truth About Him Presidents throughout history have had some rocky relationships with the free press. It's a natural conflict given the media's mission to report truthfully about everything that a political leader does and says, and the leader's determination to always... |
News Corpse | 11/30/2025 | 14 |
| Museums 201: 1906 automobiles (photo diary) Automobiles were first developed in Germany in the late nineteenth century. During the first decade of the twentieth century, automobile manufacturing began moving from hand-made cars to mass ... |
Ojibwa | 11/30/2025 | 2 |
| Sleazy Slenderman and the post-war looting of Ukraine is more about oligarchic crony capitalism How do oligarchies and their crony capitalists manage to dominate our lives: Five points on the current treachery First, the WSJ story highlights all of the downsides to Trump’s brand of start-up diplomacy. Both Witkoff and the Russians had little... |
annieli | 11/30/2025 | 5 |